On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:43:37 -0500, you wrote: >The KX-1 and KX-3 are Sieg's benchtop purpose-built CNC machines. Despite >the names I don't think they share much iron with the X1 or X3, just roughly >similar dimensions. They're carried by a variety of sellers but >LittleMachineShop.com in the US is the first that comes to mind.
They owe their existence to lessons learned on CNC'd X1's and 3's. A lot of the suggestions that Sieg took on came from the UK, and they are sold, certainly here, with UK based support and bundled with Mach3. They are also available with Siemens controls, although I never seen one of those. The major changes have been decent brushless motors and the electronics have been beefed up considerably over the early manual X1, X3 range. I think these days the only iron shared with their manual cousins is the basic table casting. On the KX-3 the base and Y axis is totally different than the SX3, it's much heavier with longer ways. Overall they are a pretty good machine for the money. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
